Programmes that subsidize poor families who keep their children in school are part of a new approach to poverty reduction in developing countries. This work explores the record of these programmes in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Honduras and Mexico.

Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.

What can we know and what should we believe about today's world?
What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues.

Health care reform will be a key fiscal policy challenge in both advanced and emerging economies in coming years. In the advanced economies, the health sector has been one of the main drivers of government expenditure, accounting for about half of the rise in total spending over the past forty years. These spending pressures are expected to intensify over the next two decades, reflecting the aging...

Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. This volume examines the outlook for public pension spending over the coming decades and the options for reform in 52 advanced and emerging market economies.

"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity. It lays out an analysis of "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other institutions, and it offers summary...

What can we know and what should we believe about today's world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues. Questions about what we can know - and what we should believe - are first addressed through an explicit consideration of the practicalities of working these issues out at the...

What can we know and what should we believe about today's world?
What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues.

The Routledge Handbook of the Applied Epistemology is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers the following central topics:...

Aimed at a broad philosophical community, including epistemologists, political philosophers, and philosophers of history, this title contributes to the interdisciplinary debate about conspiracy theories.